] a silly play, only Miss Davis, dancing in a shepherd's
clothes, did please us mightily.
6th. A full Board. Here, talking of news, my Lord Anglesy did
tell us that the Dutch do make a further bogle with us about two
or three things, which they will be satisfied in, he says, by us
easily, but only in one, it seems, they do demand that we shall
not interrupt their East Indiamen coming home, and of which they
are in some fear; and we are full of hopes that we have light
upon some of them and carried them into Lisbon by Harman; which
God send! But they (which do show the low esteem they have of
us) have the confidence to demand that we shall have a cessation
on our parts, and yet they at liberty to take what they will;
which is such an affront, as another cannot be devised greater.
7th. Though the King and my Lady Castlemaine are friends again,
she is not at White Hall, but at Sir D. Harvy's, whither the King
goes to her; and he says she made him ask her forgiveness upon
his knees and promised to offend her no more so: and that,
indeed, she did threaten to bring all his bastards to his closet
door, and hath nearly hectored him out of his wits.
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